World Drug Delivery and Novel Therapy Summit

Michael Retsky

Michael Retsky

Harvard TH Chan
University College London
USA

Biography

Michael Retsky (PhD in Physics from University of Chicago) made a career change to cancer research thirty years ago. He is Research Associate at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Honorary Reader at University College London. He was on Judah Folkman’s staff at Harvard Medical School for 12 years. Retsky is Editor of a Springer-Nature book on the breast cancer project published July 2017 (Perioperative Inflammation as Triggering Origin of Metastasis Development, M Retsky and R Demicheli editors). After diagnosis of stage IIIc colon cancer in 1994, he was the first person to use what is now called metronomic chemotherapy. He is a founder and for 10 years was on the Board of Directors of the Colon Cancer Alliance. He has published more than 60 papers in physics and cancer.


Research Interest

Research interest A bimodal pattern of hazard of relapse among early stage breast cancer patients has been identified in multiple databases from US, Europe and Asia, studying these data to determine if this can lead to new ideas on how to prevent relapse in breast cancer, Using computer simulation and access to a very high quality database from Milan for patients treated with mastectomy only.

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